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By Jennifer Ryan
The Lumbeijack
Tricia had been a student at N A U for less than three weeks when she
was picked up by three men, taken to a wooded area and sexually
assaulted.
Tricia had not been feeling well on the evening o f Sept. 16. She took
an allergy pill before leaving with a couple o f friends to see a movie at
Prochnow Auditorium. T h e women also had a couple o f beers.
During the movie, Tricia still was feeling ill, and decided to leave her
friends and walk hom e at about 10 p.m.
She had almost reached her room at Wilson Hall when she was
stopped near the Counseling and Testing Center by three, men in a
September sexual assault
reported by female student
By Chris Fwcus
The Lumberjack
A fem ale student rep orted Monday
m orning that she was sexually assaulted in
a campus residence hall in September,
leading the N A U Police Departm ent to
investigate the alleged assault and two re­lated
charges o f verbal harassment.
N A U P D received the report from the
victim at 11:45 a.m. Monday o f an assault
that occurred on Sept. 29. Th e victim said
she was assaulted by a male subject in a
m en’s residence hall between I I a.m. and
3 p.m. T h e victim said she knew the male
subject.
T w o related incidents o f “alleged threat­ening
and intimidating offenses’' also are
being investigated, said Lisa Nelson, infor­mation
specialist for University News and
Publications.
Th e charges stem from altercations
between the male subject and a female
friend o f the victim on Dec. 3 and 4.
After thefriendofthevictimapproached
the male Sunday and discussed the re­ported
assault, he allegedly called the
friend at about 10 p.m. Monday n ig h t She
filed the harassment charge shortly after
11 p.m. that evening, Nelson said.
T h e male subject filed a report with
N A U P D at about 1 a.m. Tuesday m orning
refering to the Sunday encounter.
Additional details were unavailable at
presstime.
dark, 4X 4 Chervrolet pick-up truck. T h e men, approximately 19 to21
years old, asked Tricia where Babbitt Hall was because they wanted to go
to a party there. A fter she pointed them in the right direction, they said
they did not understand and insisted she get into the vehicle and show
them how to get to the hall.
A fter she was “unwillingly assisted" into the truck, the driver said they
would be taking her ofTcampus to see some haunted houses. She told
them she did n otw antto g o and asked them to le th e r o u to fth e vehicle.
T h e men then talked her into staying with them, stopping at a liquor
store and going to the scene o f the crime. Th e m en already had been
drinking and she said she was afraid they would hurt her i f she put up
a struggle. ■
“They were on either side o f me and there was no
way 1 could g e to u to f the truck, so I thought, ‘ O.K.,
I ’ll go see these houses and then they’ll take me
home. Being stupid, 1 didn trealizew hatw asgoing
to happen,” Tricia said.
T h e driver took her to the area, dropped o f f the
other men and sexually assaulted Tricia in the
truck.
N otb ein g able to work through the tragedyand
the flashbacks, Tricia quit school shortly after
reporting the incident to the N A U Police Depart­ment.
Having to go through the assault was traumatic,
she said, but “having to deal with the N A U Police
Department and the rest o f the system was hell."
She said she became the most upsetwhile being
questioned the following day by N AU PD .
“T h e officer said to me, ‘Now, you have the
chance to be honest and tell the truth. I f you
instigated it or started it, tell me now before press­ing
charges," Tricia said.
She said she became alienated and said she
wanted to get up and leave at that point.
*1 felt, why should I even file anything or tell the
story if no on e’s going to believe m e,” she said.
“Then, after 1 wrote up my report, he again said,
‘You have another chance to change your story before I file this,"Tricia
said.
“I ll ask her 10 times to repeat the story,” N A U PD Crime Prevention
Officer Chuck Milam said Tuesday, in regards to his policies on ques­tioning
a victim about an alleged sexual assault crime.
Milam said he does this to insure the validity o f a story. Some stories
are hoaxes and women have confessed to giving false reports, he said.
However, Tosha L ee o f FlagstafTs Center Against Domestic Violence
disagrees with this procedure saying, ‘ I think that’s ridiculous. 1 would
think that would do something tremendously bad to them em otionally.”
“The case was difficult and would look bad for
NAU, so they simply dropped it and it was like I was
just a number, a statistic that got filed away and
died.” — TTric ia
NAU sexual assault victim
DeL Sgt. Raoul Osegueda o f the C oconino County Sheriff's O ffice said
questioning procedures used on victims vary from case to case.
“The victim has gone through a tramatic experience, cach case is
different, so it depends,” Osegueda said, adding that he would ask a
victim to repeat a story if he found inconsistencies.
However, he said, “95 percent o f the cases are factual and did happen. ”
“H er story is solid, but the only problem is we haven’t been able to put
anyone in ja il," said Osegueda, who is investigating the case for the
c c s o .
NAU PD turned the case over because the investigation dealt with a
m ore serious case, and because the assault occurred o ff campus and in
the jurisdiction o f the CCSO. Th e victim, however, said the crime
actually began on campus and should be recognized as a university
incident
While Tricia said she is displeased with N A U P D ’ s actions, Osegueda
said the department handled her case well.
“I don't have any problems with their initial investigation. They have
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K A L A V A R
3 3 2 2 S . 3 0 0 E AST
S A L T L A K E C I T Y , U T 8 4 1 1 5
U M B E L . ____________________ -
Northern Arizona University • Flagstaff, Arizona
V o lu m e 84, Issu e 29 e co p y righ t 1989 T h ursday, D e c e m b e r 7 ,1 9 8 9
Mora Bert>isaba celebrates Christmas in her native country, the Phillipines, by roasting a pig, hanging lanterns
in the shapes of half-moons and stars outside her house and decorating the trees with lights. This Christmas, she
said she is adapting to American culture by covering her Allen Hall door with wrapping paper and presents.
Christmas around the world
T r a d i t i o n s s y m b o l i z e c u l t u r e s
By Adam Rogers
The Lumberjack
T o Americans, Christmas is
d e cora te d trees, lights and
plenty o f presents. But to for­eign
students, the birth o f Christ
is celebrated in many unique
ways.
“Christmas back in the Phil­ippines
is much m ore family-oriented
than here," said Nora
Berbisada, graduate student
from the Philippines.
Berbisada said that in the
U nited States, Christmas is cen­tered
around the immediate
family. But in the Fhilippines
the whole extended clan gets
together.
Christmas in the Philippines
starts December 13, when fami­lies
attend mass at 5 a.m. every
day until the 24th, Berbisada
said. Christmas Eve is the larg­est
mass, after which everyone
returns h om e for the “noche
buena" — a huge feast.
In the Philippines every house­hold
traditionally has a “parol”, a
lantern in a shape symbolic o f
Christmas.
“N o matter how poor the family
is, they always have a lantern in the
form o f the star or something,*
she said.
Christmas Mass in Malaysia in­corporates
a collection o f lan­guages,
saidjudy Fernandez, bilin­gual
education major from the
southeast Asian country.
She said that since Malaysia has
so many ethnic groups, the ser-monsand
songs are often in Tamil.
Malay, Chinese, la tin and English.
In Yugoslavia, Christmas is not
that big o f a deal, said Tajana
Simunic, an electrical engineer­ing
major.
‘T h e only people who really
celebrate Christmas are the Catho­lics,
who comprise about 50 per­cent
o f the population," she said.
However, New Years is a much
bigger even t in Yugoslavia. Simu­nic
said that at New Years, eve­ryone
exchanges gifts, there arc
“N ew Years trees,” and in the
evening people sing “New Year’s
carols."
In Mexico Christmas will be­gin
December 12, with the cele­bration
o f the Virgin o f Guada­lupe,
the national saint o f Mex­ico.
Then there will be a few days
lapse until the excitem ent resu­mes
on Dec. 16, said Magdaleno
Manzanarez, graduate political
science student from Mexico.
“At that time the posadas are
set up to symbolize the journey
the Virgin Maryandjoseph took
from Nazareth to Bethlehem ,"
he said.
Manzanarez said the church
decides each year who will be
See SEASON, Page 2
Police procedures increase trauma of new assault victim
Victim scarred, friends shocked
as Lang jailed for fraud scheme
Transients raise campus concerns
Davisisin the C oconino County
Jail. Peterson was transported to
Flagstaff Medical Center, treated
and released.
Peterson said the incident was
unexpected, even though she saw
the man moments before the as­sault
at a jo b service office.
She said the breaking glass felt
like a hard “snowball" when it
struck her head. *
“I felta hot sensation, it felt wet,
and I didn't realize I was bleed­ing,”
she said.
She said the thing that scared
her the most was that no one
stopped to help her.
Peterson also said the incident
has changed her outlook on tran­sients.
“I used to think that they were
nice andjust had misfortunes, but
now ... 1 don’t want to see any o f
them," she said. “I ’ll d o anything
to avoid them."
Butwithan increasing homeless
population an d interstate loca tion,
Flagstaff's transien t population is
rapidly growing.
“W e're a crossroads, so you get a
lot o f people passing through,”
said N A U Crime Prevention O ffi­cer
Chuck Milam.
Th ough Milam said transients
are m ore com m on in summer
months, the police department
averages two to three campus
transients cases every week.
By Phil Sampaio and Chris Eaton
The Lumberjack
Teammates and friends o f N A U
running back David L a n g describe
him as an aggressive player who
never missed practice and always
was loyal to hb team.
But a different side o f Lang sur­faced
Nov. 29when he was charged
with on e coun t each o f fraud ulent
schemes and felony theft.
Lang, 21 , w ho collected honor­able
mention All-Big Sky Confer­ence
honors Nov. 27, turned him­self
in to Flagstaff police after his
alleged involvement kn a stolen
credit card ring.
A warrant was issued for Lang’s
arrest after he reportedly used a
stolen credit card to purchase more
than $700 in jewelry at the FlagstafT
Mall, police officiaJs said.
Three members o f the N A U
basketball squad were arrested last
month for their involvement in
the ring.
Lang is being held in the C o­conino
County jail, with bail set at
116,000.
N A U kicker Mickey Penaflor said
he was shocked with the news o f
Lang's arrest
“H e was always liked on the team,
and played hard," Penaflor said.
O ffen s ive C o o rd in a to r Brad
Childress agreed.
“H e was popular because he
never missed practice and always
worked hard,"Childresssaid. “H e ’s
always had a trem endous work
ethic."
But defensive linem an M ike
Sanfratello tells a different story.
*1 feel sorry fo r him , but the way
he was going, it was bound to
happen," Sanfratello said, adding
that Lang often “did things with­out
thinking."
"H e's really not a bad guy, he just
gets m ixed up and makes real bad
decisions," he said.
L a n g ’s problems o f f the field
seem to have erupted when he
began to excel in athletics.
Lang gained 521 yards rushing
this season, in addition to his All­Conference
honors.
A senior, he scored four touch­downs
in his last game for the Lum-beijacks
N ov. 18 against the Uni­versity
o f Nevada-Reno.
Lang's involvement in the ring
See LANG, Page 2
By Phil Sampaio
and John Dougherty
The Lumbeijack
A transient attacked an NAU
student last week at a fast food
restaurant, injuring the stuclenT
and raising the issue o f crime in­volving
transients.
Jennifer Peterson*, 18, suffered
muliple cuts and abrasions on the
back o f her head and a broken
nose when she was struck with a
beer bottle at 11:30 a.m. while us­ing
a pay phone.
A motive is unknown for the
Nov. 27 incident
FlagstafT police arrested An­thony
Davis, 33, and charged him
with one count o f aggrivated as­sault
Gary Starks/The Lumberjack
The NAU police department arrests a transient in the University Union.
NAUPD is called to assist in about three transient-related crimes a week.

By Jennifer Ryan
The Lumbeijack
Tricia had been a student at N A U for less than three weeks when she
was picked up by three men, taken to a wooded area and sexually
assaulted.
Tricia had not been feeling well on the evening o f Sept. 16. She took
an allergy pill before leaving with a couple o f friends to see a movie at
Prochnow Auditorium. T h e women also had a couple o f beers.
During the movie, Tricia still was feeling ill, and decided to leave her
friends and walk hom e at about 10 p.m.
She had almost reached her room at Wilson Hall when she was
stopped near the Counseling and Testing Center by three, men in a
September sexual assault
reported by female student
By Chris Fwcus
The Lumberjack
A fem ale student rep orted Monday
m orning that she was sexually assaulted in
a campus residence hall in September,
leading the N A U Police Departm ent to
investigate the alleged assault and two re­lated
charges o f verbal harassment.
N A U P D received the report from the
victim at 11:45 a.m. Monday o f an assault
that occurred on Sept. 29. Th e victim said
she was assaulted by a male subject in a
m en’s residence hall between I I a.m. and
3 p.m. T h e victim said she knew the male
subject.
T w o related incidents o f “alleged threat­ening
and intimidating offenses’' also are
being investigated, said Lisa Nelson, infor­mation
specialist for University News and
Publications.
Th e charges stem from altercations
between the male subject and a female
friend o f the victim on Dec. 3 and 4.
After thefriendofthevictimapproached
the male Sunday and discussed the re­ported
assault, he allegedly called the
friend at about 10 p.m. Monday n ig h t She
filed the harassment charge shortly after
11 p.m. that evening, Nelson said.
T h e male subject filed a report with
N A U P D at about 1 a.m. Tuesday m orning
refering to the Sunday encounter.
Additional details were unavailable at
presstime.
dark, 4X 4 Chervrolet pick-up truck. T h e men, approximately 19 to21
years old, asked Tricia where Babbitt Hall was because they wanted to go
to a party there. A fter she pointed them in the right direction, they said
they did not understand and insisted she get into the vehicle and show
them how to get to the hall.
A fter she was “unwillingly assisted" into the truck, the driver said they
would be taking her ofTcampus to see some haunted houses. She told
them she did n otw antto g o and asked them to le th e r o u to fth e vehicle.
T h e men then talked her into staying with them, stopping at a liquor
store and going to the scene o f the crime. Th e m en already had been
drinking and she said she was afraid they would hurt her i f she put up
a struggle. ■
“They were on either side o f me and there was no
way 1 could g e to u to f the truck, so I thought, ‘ O.K.,
I ’ll go see these houses and then they’ll take me
home. Being stupid, 1 didn trealizew hatw asgoing
to happen,” Tricia said.
T h e driver took her to the area, dropped o f f the
other men and sexually assaulted Tricia in the
truck.
N otb ein g able to work through the tragedyand
the flashbacks, Tricia quit school shortly after
reporting the incident to the N A U Police Depart­ment.
Having to go through the assault was traumatic,
she said, but “having to deal with the N A U Police
Department and the rest o f the system was hell."
She said she became the most upsetwhile being
questioned the following day by N AU PD .
“T h e officer said to me, ‘Now, you have the
chance to be honest and tell the truth. I f you
instigated it or started it, tell me now before press­ing
charges," Tricia said.
She said she became alienated and said she
wanted to get up and leave at that point.
*1 felt, why should I even file anything or tell the
story if no on e’s going to believe m e,” she said.
“Then, after 1 wrote up my report, he again said,
‘You have another chance to change your story before I file this,"Tricia
said.
“I ll ask her 10 times to repeat the story,” N A U PD Crime Prevention
Officer Chuck Milam said Tuesday, in regards to his policies on ques­tioning
a victim about an alleged sexual assault crime.
Milam said he does this to insure the validity o f a story. Some stories
are hoaxes and women have confessed to giving false reports, he said.
However, Tosha L ee o f FlagstafTs Center Against Domestic Violence
disagrees with this procedure saying, ‘ I think that’s ridiculous. 1 would
think that would do something tremendously bad to them em otionally.”
“The case was difficult and would look bad for
NAU, so they simply dropped it and it was like I was
just a number, a statistic that got filed away and
died.” — TTric ia
NAU sexual assault victim
DeL Sgt. Raoul Osegueda o f the C oconino County Sheriff's O ffice said
questioning procedures used on victims vary from case to case.
“The victim has gone through a tramatic experience, cach case is
different, so it depends,” Osegueda said, adding that he would ask a
victim to repeat a story if he found inconsistencies.
However, he said, “95 percent o f the cases are factual and did happen. ”
“H er story is solid, but the only problem is we haven’t been able to put
anyone in ja il," said Osegueda, who is investigating the case for the
c c s o .
NAU PD turned the case over because the investigation dealt with a
m ore serious case, and because the assault occurred o ff campus and in
the jurisdiction o f the CCSO. Th e victim, however, said the crime
actually began on campus and should be recognized as a university
incident
While Tricia said she is displeased with N A U P D ’ s actions, Osegueda
said the department handled her case well.
“I don't have any problems with their initial investigation. They have
S e e T R I C I A , P a g e 4
K A L A V A R
3 3 2 2 S . 3 0 0 E AST
S A L T L A K E C I T Y , U T 8 4 1 1 5
U M B E L . ____________________ -
Northern Arizona University • Flagstaff, Arizona
V o lu m e 84, Issu e 29 e co p y righ t 1989 T h ursday, D e c e m b e r 7 ,1 9 8 9
Mora Bert>isaba celebrates Christmas in her native country, the Phillipines, by roasting a pig, hanging lanterns
in the shapes of half-moons and stars outside her house and decorating the trees with lights. This Christmas, she
said she is adapting to American culture by covering her Allen Hall door with wrapping paper and presents.
Christmas around the world
T r a d i t i o n s s y m b o l i z e c u l t u r e s
By Adam Rogers
The Lumberjack
T o Americans, Christmas is
d e cora te d trees, lights and
plenty o f presents. But to for­eign
students, the birth o f Christ
is celebrated in many unique
ways.
“Christmas back in the Phil­ippines
is much m ore family-oriented
than here," said Nora
Berbisada, graduate student
from the Philippines.
Berbisada said that in the
U nited States, Christmas is cen­tered
around the immediate
family. But in the Fhilippines
the whole extended clan gets
together.
Christmas in the Philippines
starts December 13, when fami­lies
attend mass at 5 a.m. every
day until the 24th, Berbisada
said. Christmas Eve is the larg­est
mass, after which everyone
returns h om e for the “noche
buena" — a huge feast.
In the Philippines every house­hold
traditionally has a “parol”, a
lantern in a shape symbolic o f
Christmas.
“N o matter how poor the family
is, they always have a lantern in the
form o f the star or something,*
she said.
Christmas Mass in Malaysia in­corporates
a collection o f lan­guages,
saidjudy Fernandez, bilin­gual
education major from the
southeast Asian country.
She said that since Malaysia has
so many ethnic groups, the ser-monsand
songs are often in Tamil.
Malay, Chinese, la tin and English.
In Yugoslavia, Christmas is not
that big o f a deal, said Tajana
Simunic, an electrical engineer­ing
major.
‘T h e only people who really
celebrate Christmas are the Catho­lics,
who comprise about 50 per­cent
o f the population," she said.
However, New Years is a much
bigger even t in Yugoslavia. Simu­nic
said that at New Years, eve­ryone
exchanges gifts, there arc
“N ew Years trees,” and in the
evening people sing “New Year’s
carols."
In Mexico Christmas will be­gin
December 12, with the cele­bration
o f the Virgin o f Guada­lupe,
the national saint o f Mex­ico.
Then there will be a few days
lapse until the excitem ent resu­mes
on Dec. 16, said Magdaleno
Manzanarez, graduate political
science student from Mexico.
“At that time the posadas are
set up to symbolize the journey
the Virgin Maryandjoseph took
from Nazareth to Bethlehem ,"
he said.
Manzanarez said the church
decides each year who will be
See SEASON, Page 2
Police procedures increase trauma of new assault victim
Victim scarred, friends shocked
as Lang jailed for fraud scheme
Transients raise campus concerns
Davisisin the C oconino County
Jail. Peterson was transported to
Flagstaff Medical Center, treated
and released.
Peterson said the incident was
unexpected, even though she saw
the man moments before the as­sault
at a jo b service office.
She said the breaking glass felt
like a hard “snowball" when it
struck her head. *
“I felta hot sensation, it felt wet,
and I didn't realize I was bleed­ing,”
she said.
She said the thing that scared
her the most was that no one
stopped to help her.
Peterson also said the incident
has changed her outlook on tran­sients.
“I used to think that they were
nice andjust had misfortunes, but
now ... 1 don’t want to see any o f
them," she said. “I ’ll d o anything
to avoid them."
Butwithan increasing homeless
population an d interstate loca tion,
Flagstaff's transien t population is
rapidly growing.
“W e're a crossroads, so you get a
lot o f people passing through,”
said N A U Crime Prevention O ffi­cer
Chuck Milam.
Th ough Milam said transients
are m ore com m on in summer
months, the police department
averages two to three campus
transients cases every week.
By Phil Sampaio and Chris Eaton
The Lumberjack
Teammates and friends o f N A U
running back David L a n g describe
him as an aggressive player who
never missed practice and always
was loyal to hb team.
But a different side o f Lang sur­faced
Nov. 29when he was charged
with on e coun t each o f fraud ulent
schemes and felony theft.
Lang, 21 , w ho collected honor­able
mention All-Big Sky Confer­ence
honors Nov. 27, turned him­self
in to Flagstaff police after his
alleged involvement kn a stolen
credit card ring.
A warrant was issued for Lang’s
arrest after he reportedly used a
stolen credit card to purchase more
than $700 in jewelry at the FlagstafT
Mall, police officiaJs said.
Three members o f the N A U
basketball squad were arrested last
month for their involvement in
the ring.
Lang is being held in the C o­conino
County jail, with bail set at
116,000.
N A U kicker Mickey Penaflor said
he was shocked with the news o f
Lang's arrest
“H e was always liked on the team,
and played hard," Penaflor said.
O ffen s ive C o o rd in a to r Brad
Childress agreed.
“H e was popular because he
never missed practice and always
worked hard,"Childresssaid. “H e ’s
always had a trem endous work
ethic."
But defensive linem an M ike
Sanfratello tells a different story.
*1 feel sorry fo r him , but the way
he was going, it was bound to
happen," Sanfratello said, adding
that Lang often “did things with­out
thinking."
"H e's really not a bad guy, he just
gets m ixed up and makes real bad
decisions," he said.
L a n g ’s problems o f f the field
seem to have erupted when he
began to excel in athletics.
Lang gained 521 yards rushing
this season, in addition to his All­Conference
honors.
A senior, he scored four touch­downs
in his last game for the Lum-beijacks
N ov. 18 against the Uni­versity
o f Nevada-Reno.
Lang's involvement in the ring
See LANG, Page 2
By Phil Sampaio
and John Dougherty
The Lumbeijack
A transient attacked an NAU
student last week at a fast food
restaurant, injuring the stuclenT
and raising the issue o f crime in­volving
transients.
Jennifer Peterson*, 18, suffered
muliple cuts and abrasions on the
back o f her head and a broken
nose when she was struck with a
beer bottle at 11:30 a.m. while us­ing
a pay phone.
A motive is unknown for the
Nov. 27 incident
FlagstafT police arrested An­thony
Davis, 33, and charged him
with one count o f aggrivated as­sault
Gary Starks/The Lumberjack
The NAU police department arrests a transient in the University Union.
NAUPD is called to assist in about three transient-related crimes a week.